Jan Techau

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Jan Techau (* 1972 in Lübeck ) is a German political scientist . Since January 1, 2018 he has been a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin and heads its European program.

Life

Techau studied political science, public law and English at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and at Pennsylvania State University . From 1999 to 2000 he received a scholarship from the Robert Bosch Stiftung in the Foundation College for International Tasks.

From 2001 to 2006 he worked at the Federal Ministry of Defense as a consultant in the press and information staff. From 2006 he set up the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European future issues in the German Society for Foreign Policy . From February 2010 he worked for a year as a Research Adviser in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome.

In February 2011 he moved to Brussels and took over the management of Carnegie Europe , the European office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . At Carnegie Europe, he founded the Strategic Europe Blog with former New York Times journalist Judy Dempsey , an English-language online platform for analyzing and commenting on foreign, security and European policy. In 2014 and 2016, Carnegie Europe won the coveted Think Tank of the Year Award from UK magazine Prospect Magazine . From September 2016 to the end of 2017 he headed the Richard C Holbrooke Forum at the American Academy in Berlin .

In May 2017 Techau and his co-author, the former dpa and Bloomberg journalist Leon Mangasarian, published the book "Leadership Germany - Strategy without fear and presumption" in the principle of "serving leadership" for Germany's new foreign policy role ( Servant Leadership) is proposed. Techau is one of the authors of the transatlantic manifesto "Despite everything: America", which appeared in October 2017 in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

Techau writes the monthly column "European World" for the CAUSA debate forum of the Berlin Tagesspiegel and he regularly comments on foreign and security policy issues for German and international media. He is married and lives in Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • What Makes Communication Strategic ?, NDC Research Paper No. 65, Nato Defense College, Rome, 2011.
  • No Strategy Please, We're German, The Eight Elements That Shaped German Strategic Culture, in: Christopher M. Schnaubelt (Ed.), Towards A Comprehensive Approach, Strategic and Operational Challenges, NDC Forum Paper 18, Rome, May 2011.
  • The Strategic Europe Yardstick, Making Foreign Policy Strategic in A Union of 27 , Carnegie Europe, Brussels, January 2012.
  • Jan Techau (Ed.): Strategic Europe , Carnegie Europe, Brussels, 2012.
  • Use inside, James Bond's "Skyfall" as an indicator of Western sensitivities , Internationale Politik, Berlin, 2013.
  • Stefan Lehne, Daniel Keohane, Ulrich Speck, Jan Techau: A New Ambition For Europe, A Memo to The European Union Foreign Policy Chief , Carnegie Europe, Brussels 2014.
  • The Right Kind of German Leadership for Europe , Strategic Europe, Brussels, October 2014.
  • Confess to Europe and ties to the West! - Germany must eliminate the uncertainty , contribution to the " Review 2014 " of the Foreign Office, Berlin 2014.
  • The Politics of Two Percent, NATO and the Security Vacuum in Europe , Carnegie Europe, Brussels 2015.
  • A Promise Unfulfilled , German-American Relations 25 Years after Reunification, AICGS, Washington, 2015.
  • Strategic Options for Europe, The Occasional Power , Carnegie Europe, Brussels, 2015.
  • Tina Fordham, Jan Techau: Global Political Risk, The Convergence Between Geopolitical And Vox Populi Risk , London, Citibank Global Risk Report, London 2016.
  • Foreign policy as a moral acid test , in: Wolfgang Ischinger, Dirk Messner (Eds.), Deutschlands New Responsibility, Berlin 2017.
  • Torn in the USA , review of "Born To Run", Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, Berliner Republik, Berlin, 2017.
  • Leon Mangasarian, Jan Techau: Leading power Germany. Strategy without fear and presumption . dtv-Verlag, Munich, 2017.

swell

  1. ^ Page about Techau at the German Marshall Fund , accessed October 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Think Tank of the Year Winners 2016. Accessed March 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Director, Richard C. Holbrooke Forum. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017 ; accessed on March 17, 2017 .
  4. ^ Leading power Germany by Leon Mangasarian, Jan Techau | dtv . ( dtv.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  5. ↑ A Transatlantic Manifesto in the Times of Donald Trump. Retrieved on August 25, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Overview of all columns | Causa - Debate Portal. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  7. ^ What Makes Communication Strategic? NDC, February 2011, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ No Strategy Please, We're German. NDC, May 2011, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  9. ^ The Strategic Europe Yardstick. Carnegie Europe, January 2012, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Use inside . In: DGAP eV January 4, 2013 ( dgap.org [accessed March 17, 2017]).
  11. ^ Lehne, Keohane, Speck, Techau: A New Ambition. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 29, 2014; accessed March 17, 2017 .
  12. ^ The Right Kind of German Leadership for Europe. Carnegie Europe, October 2014, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Confess to Europe and ties to the West! In: Review 2014 . ( aussenpolitik-weiter-haben.de [accessed on March 17, 2017]). Confess to Europe and ties to the West! ( Memento from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ The Politics of Two Percent. Carnegie Europe, September 2015, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  15. ^ Strategic Options for Europe, the Occasional Power. Carnegie Europe, December 2015, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  16. ^ Fordham, Techau: Global Political Risk Report. Citibank, January 2016, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Foreign policy as a moral ordeal. February 17, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  18. ^ Archive - Berlin Republic. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Techau, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck